(Reuters) - The U.S. National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday said employers must compensate workers for "direct or foreseeable" financial harms, such as credit card debt and out-of-pocket medical expenses, that result from illegal firings and other unlawful labor practices.
The 3-2 ruling in a case involving Texas-based Thryv Inc, which sells Yellow Pages advertising, expands the limited financial remedies available to workers when their employers violate the National Labor Relations Act.
The NLRB's three Democratic members said in the ruling that the enhanced remedies would make it easier for the board to carry out its duty to make workers whole when their rights to organize and join unions are violated.
"We cannot fairly say that employees have been made whole until they are fully compensated for these kinds of pecuniary harms if the harms were direct or foreseeable consequences of the respondent’s unfair labor practice," the majority wrote.
Thryv and its lawyers at Seyfarth Shaw did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Nor did the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), which represents Thryv employees.
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